“Why do we park on driveways and drive on parkways? Just to be silly!”
George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian
“Every time my brain parks the car neatly in the driveway, my mouth drives through the back of the garage.”
— Dave Eggers, book The Circle
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